Do Not Store Up Your Treasures On Earth

Christians are being attacked in American culture for the slightest evidence of their being identified as Christian, and one pastor says this could be a sign the Lord is coming back – soon. It is argued that it is getting hard to be a Christian in public these days – even for a Hall-of-Fame-bound quarterback who was one play shy of taking his National Football League team to the Super Bowl last season. One LGBTQ activist criticized New Orleans Saints star quarterback Drew Brees…

Newly discovered North Korea propaganda footage sheds light on how the Communist regime trains state security agents on how to identify and silence Christians in the Hermit Kingdom. The video obtained by The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), a Christian nonprofit that supports persecuted believers all over the world, was shared with Fox News and translated by VOM-Korea staff. The previously unseen film shows the story of Cha Deoksun, whose life otherwise might not have been known to the world, and her belief in a deity…

The number three fast-food restaurant in America just opened its first store in Canada. Toronto greeted the grand opening of its first Chick-fil-A with about 75 protesters staging “die-ins”, opposing the eating of “sentient” beings (chickens), and carrying signs saying “Cluck Off” to what they describe as Chick-fil-A’s alleged stance against “LGBTQ” rights. But long before the protesters showed up, people were lining up in the wee hours of the morning to be the first customers to enjoy sandwiches made from those delicious…

Last week, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees disavowed the Christian political organization Focus on the Family after facing backlash for appearing in a video supporting one of the socially conservative group’s causes. On Monday, Patriots tight end Ben Watson went on Fox News to defend the group, as well as his former Saints teammate. Brees had recently recorded a video for “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” an initiative sponsored by Focus on the Family. That sparked criticism last week from a local…

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees appeared in a Focus on the Family video last week to promote “Bring Your Bible To School Day,” and that was waaaaay too controversial for anti-Christian media. They swarmed over Brees like angry bees for his association with Focus, stinging both with the “anti-LGBT bigot” label. The Washington Post, Deadspin blog, Big Easy Magazine and The Young Turks internet program led the smear against Brees and Focus. On The Young Turks internet program, host Rick Strom blasts Brees…

A rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, blows in the wind in Christopher Park outside the Stonewall Inn in New York in June. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) By Jonathan Merritt September 6 at 1:27 PM For two decades, McKrae Game was a top-tier figure among ex-gay Christians and a leading advocate for conversion therapy, a counseling practice with the goal of helping LGBTQ people suppress their homosexuality and become “straight.” But Game, 51, now disavows the movement and acknowledges…

A pastor on the China–North Korea border shared his faith with at least 1,000 North Koreans in the Hermit Kingdom before he was assassinated in 2016, a defector claims. Rev. Han Chung-Ryeol, a Chinese pastor of Korean descent, who ministered on the border town of Changbai since the early 1990s, was reportedly on Pyongyang’s most-wanted list as early as 2003 for his faith-based charitable work. NORTH KOREA PRISON CAMP SURVIVOR: ‘AM I A CHRISTIAN? YES. I LOVE JESUS. BUT I DENY IT’ Han fed and sheltered thousands of North…

Four years after a sex scandal prompted him to depart from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tullian Tchividjian, grandson to Billy Graham, has again assumed the pulpit. Now, he is preaching an alternative approach to the faith that he calls “Upside Down Christianity.” Since I last wrote about him in 2015, Tchividjian’s life has taken many turns. He attempted to resurrect his Liberate Network parachurch ministry and found employment at Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Winter Springs, Florida. Both endeavors fizzled in early 2016 after…

The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/53552/hong-kong-christians-bills-removal-not-enough HONG KONG (BP) — The withdrawal of an extradition bill that threatened religious freedom in Hong Kong is not enough to satisfy Christians and others amid protests there, a Christian advocate told Baptist Press Wednesday (Sept. 4). “Their anger lies with the excessive use of police/force, police brutality, and prosecution of protestors or activists in the past few months,” International Christian Concern’s (ICC) Gina Goh told BP. “These are the direct results of (Hong Kong Chief…

A Mississippi wedding venue that refused to host an interracial couple on their big day — reportedly citing “Christian belief” — has seemingly backtracked after the owner reread the Bible and spoke with her pastor. Boone’s Camp Event Hall in Booneville was recently working with a couple — a black man and a white woman — to host their nuptials at the business. Roughly a week into planning, however, the pair received a message from the business owner that they would not be allowed to get married there “because of [the venue’s] beliefs.”…

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,…. Meaning either treasures that are of an earthly nature and kind, the more valuable and excellent things of…

Atheist, Muslims, Satanist, Gangsters, Strippers, Drug Addicts, Homosexuals, and myself all have one thing in common. We sin. No sin is too big for Jesus. He died on the cross for all of us. You have the winning ticket already. Redeem that winning ticket by asking the Lord Jesus Christ to come into your heart. Ask him for forgiveness and to change you from the inside out. There is no gift on earth that compares to the gift or eternal salvation. For God so…

Without question, the nastiest, evil, most disgusting, cunning, and seductive spirit in Satan’s hierarchy has to be what many call the Jezebel spirit. What is the Jezebel spirit? The Jezebel spirit is not just one spirit like Satan is. This is a “type” of evil spirit in Satan’s kingdom. There is only one devil, one Satan, but there are many spirits that would be considered a Jezebel type spirit, as they all have a particular type of personality and a specific way in which…

New Western Wall tunnels synagogue opened By Jeremy Sharon | December 19, 2017 18:49 The synagogue is deep inside the complex and is adjacent to the area above which the ancient Jewish temples on the Temple Mount stood, and the inner sanctum of the Holy of Holies in particular. A remarkable new synagogue within the Western Wall tunnels complex that took 12 years to build was dedicated and opened on Monday night, following the traditional Hanukka candle-lighting ceremony in the Western Wall plaza. The…